Gimp can save in multiple formats which Daz can use. Just save your photo as a JPG or PNG (for lossy or lossless compression respectively) and you can load it into Daz as a texture map or a background.

GIMP has changed it’s save dialog in the 2.8 release…if you want to save a file as something other than GIMP native format, you need to use the Export instead of Save. Other than that GIMP handles just about any image format around…Studio can use BMP, JPG, PNG, TIF and a couple of others…

I’m a GIMP user myself. Earlier versions tended to be crash-prone with any scripts, but the latest is very stable and has a very good 64-bit version. Make sure you get the GIMP animation package for doing gifs (if you want to do gifs) and the free GMIC and Resynthesize plugins because they are awesome.

GIMP can use Photoshop’s brushes, of which there are many inexpensive (Obsidian Dawn is my favorite) or free (all over the internet, but check licenses).

I’m a GIMP user myself. Earlier versions tended to be crash-prone with any scripts, but the latest is very stable and has a very good 64-bit version. Make sure you get the GIMP animation package for doing gifs (if you want to do gifs) and the free GMIC and Resynthesize plugins because they are awesome.

GIMP can use Photoshop’s brushes, of which there are many inexpensive (Obsidian Dawn is my favorite) or free (all over the internet, but check licenses).

Obsidian Dawn has a bazillion brushes…and lots of good free ones. Some are even packaged for use in GIMP, but all her brushes I’ve tried (either the PS or GIMP packages) have worked well. And with the new brush controls in 2.8, most of them work even better…my favorite new control is full rotation on the selected brush. (yeah, PS has had rotation for a while but GIMP didn’t or had rather clunky work arounds). http://www.obsidiandawn.com/

Ron’s Brushes, offered here in the store work very well in GIMP. Ron has a free sample pack at Brusheezy…

I’m a GIMP user myself. Earlier versions tended to be crash-prone with any scripts, but the latest is very stable and has a very good 64-bit version. Make sure you get the GIMP animation package for doing gifs (if you want to do gifs) and the free GMIC and Resynthesize plugins because they are awesome.

GIMP can use Photoshop’s brushes, of which there are many inexpensive (Obsidian Dawn is my favorite) or free (all over the internet, but check licenses).

You say GIMP uses Photoshop brushes; do they need to be converted or can they be used “as is” (been using paintshop pro but it don’t do brushes without conversion)

*looks around startled* Oh my gosh what did I just do! *Quickly goes back to lurking*

I’m a GIMP user myself. Earlier versions tended to be crash-prone with any scripts, but the latest is very stable and has a very good 64-bit version. Make sure you get the GIMP animation package for doing gifs (if you want to do gifs) and the free GMIC and Resynthesize plugins because they are awesome.

GIMP can use Photoshop’s brushes, of which there are many inexpensive (Obsidian Dawn is my favorite) or free (all over the internet, but check licenses).

You say GIMP uses Photoshop brushes; do they need to be converted or can they be used “as is” (been using paintshop pro but it don’t do brushes without conversion)

*looks around startled* Oh my gosh what did I just do! *Quickly goes back to lurking*

As-is. You just dump the .abr right into the brushes folder and they work.

I’m a GIMP user myself. Earlier versions tended to be crash-prone with any scripts, but the latest is very stable and has a very good 64-bit version. Make sure you get the GIMP animation package for doing gifs (if you want to do gifs) and the free GMIC and Resynthesize plugins because they are awesome.

GIMP can use Photoshop’s brushes, of which there are many inexpensive (Obsidian Dawn is my favorite) or free (all over the internet, but check licenses).

You say GIMP uses Photoshop brushes; do they need to be converted or can they be used “as is” (been using paintshop pro but it don’t do brushes without conversion)

*looks around startled* Oh my gosh what did I just do! *Quickly goes back to lurking*

As-is. You just dump the .abr right into the brushes folder and they work.

Gimp is sounding more and more interesting, I may have to try it soon.